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The Underlying Religion is an anthology of 25 essays by 14 of the leading exponents of the "perennialist" or "traditionalist" school of comparative religious thought, associated with René Guénon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and Frithjof Schuon. This school is, well-known for its espousal of the "transcendent unity of religions", the idea that religions are different paths leading to the same summit. Focusing its selection on the most accessible of the...
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Priceless Treasure tells the story of the strong faith of the family matriarch and her powerful influence on the spiritual life of her family. She lives in a beautiful rural area overlooking the sea and majestic mountain peaks. Her exquisite cuisine is an attractive magnet, which she deftly manages to use as a metaphor for spiritual fulfillment. Her adorable and precocious grandchildren love her dearly and together with their friends and parents form...
3) Ghetto-Logik
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We live in a parallel universe. Therefore, wherever theres an upscale neighborhood, there must be a ghetto; and if there is a ghetto, then there is a need for my Ghetto-Logik. This book is the Brooklyn Bridge that connects da hood to lavish neighborhoods. We, as human beings, were designed with identical spiritual, mental, and physical features, along with the divine gift of free will. However, some of us do not fully understand the grandness of our...
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Are you going through a trial or trials? This book consists of 15 heartfelt, spiritual and inspirational articles that will encourage you. You will be exposed to Gods word and wisdom. You will be inspired to do the right things and live the right way despite a difficulty or the problems that you may have. It is my hope that your life is enhanced by reading this book. Gregory D. Darbonne
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This book examines the linkages between the music and message of the Grateful Dead and the Christian gospel. The Grateful Dead emerged from the San Francisco hippie scene in the late 1960s, and offered a message of community and divine encounter. While the Dead drew on the teachings of many spiritual traditions, the bands ethos echoed quite powerfully the wisdom of Christian Scripture. This reflection examines the ways in which the Grateful Dead embodied...
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Book is written to interact in a personal way with your consciousness. It takes you on a journey from the higher self to the mental plane of imagination. The mental plane of imagination serves to expand our awareness and to program our consciousness with truer and higher thought forms that manifest as realities. All readers are endowed with the power to define reality. As a result, no two readers will experience this book the same way. It is the free...
8) Spiritual Innovators: Seventy-Five Extraordinary People Who Changed the World in the Past Century
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Fascinating profiles of the most important spiritual leaders of the past one hundred years. An invaluable reference of twentieth-century religion and an inspiring resource for spiritual challenge today.
The result of a nationwide survey of experts in leading universities and seminaries, as well as leading representatives of dozens of religious traditions and spiritual persuasions, this authoritative list of seventy-five includes martyrs and mystics,...
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From the creator of the bestseller, Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective, comes Food and Faith. Food is itself a joyful gift - recall how the gift of food so often mediates the sanctity and preciousness of life. This new collection of reflections by Wendell Berry, Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Johnson, Alan Durning and others helps readers consider the moral, spiritual and economic implications of eating. Readings focus on the enjoyment...
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The Middle East conflictoriginated, literally, in the womb of a beautiful woman Rebekah, Isaacswife. Her struggling twins, fromtheir mothers womb, have often engaged in a love/hate embrace, scorching theirlands with periodic eruptions of bloody conflicts. Their descendants, though gradually lost their identity, havespread their struggle for the global inheritance into Europe, the Americas,and elsewhere.The march of Islam,...
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"God is mystery," writes Norvene Vest in the Introduction to Tending the Holy, "and every form of religion is an effort to respond faithfully to the mystery of God by whatever name. The Divine breaks through into human experience in many ways, and humans respond variously to the awesome experience of God." And those various responses are what the contributors to Tending the Holy document.
In this provocative and cutting-edge collection readers are...
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The presiding bishop's advisors lay out a step-by-step way to nurture a profound friendship with God in Christ.
Walking the Way of Love is organized according to seven practices (Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest) and three ways of being (We Seek Love; We Seek Freedom; and We Seek Abundant Life). The wisdom in this book allows people to move from the first tentative stages of wanting an experiential relationship with Jesus to having...
13) The Urantia Book: Revealing the Mysteries of God, the Universe, World History, Jesus, and Ourselves
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Az Urantia Alapítvány által először 1955-ben kiadott Urantia könyv az emberiség eredetével, történelmével és rendeltetési céljával kapcsolatos beszámolóval ajándékoz meg bennünket. Az Istennel, a lakott világegyetembeli élettel, e világ történelmével és jövőjével kapcsolatos kérdésekre ad választ, és felemelő képet tár elénk Jézus életéről és az ő tanításairól.
Az Urantia könyv bemutatja az Atya Istenhez...
14) The New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review
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This companion to A New Earth includes: Overview of the book Important People Key Takeaways Analysis of Key Takeaways and much more!
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Following Presiding Bishop Michael Curry's call to follow "The Way of Love: Practices for a Jesus-Filled Life" each of these seven little books will provide an entry point to the novice who wishes to learn more about how to begin a practice of turning to Christ, learning about the faith, prayer, worship, the sharing of gifts with others (bless), being a disciple (go), and rest (take time for self-care). Gleaning from the wisdom of CPI authors, each...
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Our Faith, In Our Words
What does it mean to be young and spiritual today-when the New Age isn't exactly new, when female rabbis and ministers are no longer unusual, and when Eastern religion's ideas and practices are no longer considered exotic? Who are the faces behind today's fresh approaches to faith, approaches that are destined to shape the future of spiritual life in America?
"Religion is not a crutch for the weak-minded. It is merely spirituality...
17) Heaven
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We hear about heaven and the supernatural on late-night TV far more often than in church, and many Christians never hear it mentioned seriously from the pulpit. Everyone has something to say about their hopes and fears for the afterlife, but the topic of eternity is usually left to the talk shows. Ironically heaven is ignored by contemporary Christian preachers who stress the dailiness and Athis-worldliness@ of religious faith. That emphasis is salutary,...
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Vous avez découvert le chef d'œuvre littéraire répondant aux questions concernant Dieu, la vie dans l'univers habité, l'histoire, le futur de ce monde et la vie de Jésus. Le Livre d'Urantia harmonise histoire, science et religion en une philosophie de vie pleine d'espérance et de sens nouveau. Vous cherchez des réponses, lisez le Livre d'Urantia !Le monde a besoin de nouvelles vérités spirituelles, amenant l'homme et la femme modernes à...
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Caring for their mothers at the end of their lives and grieving for them after their deaths brought them together. Seven women from diverse racial, cultural, and religious traditions with differing sexual orientations and life experiences became seven "sisters in mourning," meeting to share their grief and to remember together, not only their mothers, but themselves as daughters. This book is a rich compilation of narratives that emerged through vulnerable...
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This volume brings together texts of the twelfth-century Hildegard of Bingen and the early-thirteenth-century Francis of Assisi to represent religious spirituality after the Gregorian Reform and just prior to or simultaneous with the formation of universities in Western Europe. In an extraordinary way, Hildegard embodies monastic theology and spirituality and provides a contrast to the new thing that would be created with the study of theology in...
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